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Overtime calculator: regular and overtime pay from your rate, hours and rules
Overtime is time worked above a threshold, often paid at a higher rate. Enter the hourly rate, the hours worked each day, the weekly or daily threshold and the multiplier. The calculator splits the week into regular and overtime hours and shows the pay. You set the thresholds; it does not know your local rules.
Enter the week
No sign-up needed. The calculation runs in your browser; nothing is sent to Regsta or saved.
Result
- Hours worked
- Regular hours
- Overtime hours
- of which above the daily threshold
- of which above the weekly threshold
- Regular pay
- Overtime pay
- Added by the multiplier
- Total pay
What the result assumes
- Weekly threshold in hours (a dash means none)
- Daily threshold in hours (a dash means none)
- Overtime multiplier
- Daily overtime is counted first. Weekly overtime counts only the hours still above the weekly threshold, so no hour is counted twice.
- Overtime hours are paid at the hourly rate times the multiplier; all other hours at the hourly rate.
- Hours are not rounded. Pay is rounded to two decimals. There is no tax, no double time, no averaging across weeks and no pay for time off.
- Public holidays, rest days, night work, collective agreements and exemptions are not modelled.
Examples to start from
Weekly over 40 hours at 1.5× (US federal baseline for non-exempt employees)
The US Fair Labor Standards Act sets overtime at no less than one and a half times the regular rate for hours over 40 in a workweek for covered, non-exempt employees. States and contracts can require more.
Daily over 8 hours at 1.5×, plus weekly over 40 (some US states, for example California)
Some US states also count hours over 8 in a day as overtime, and California has a double-time rate for longer days. This calculator applies one multiplier and does not model double time.
No statutory overtime premium (UK: pay set by contract)
In the UK, pay for extra hours is set by the contract of employment rather than by a statutory overtime rate. National Minimum Wage rules, which average pay over the pay period, still apply. The example uses no threshold and a multiplier of 1.
Regsta does not calculate overtime pay
Regsta records start, end and break for each shift and shows the hours worked. It adds no overtime, premiums or supplements to the pay file; your payroll system applies your pay rules to the approved hours.
Questions about overtime pay
- How is overtime pay calculated?
- Multiply the hourly rate by the overtime multiplier, then by the overtime hours, and add the regular hours at the plain rate. At 20 an hour with 45 hours worked, a 40-hour weekly threshold and a 1.5 multiplier, that is 40 times 20 plus 5 times 20 times 1.5, which is 950.
- What is the difference between daily and weekly overtime?
- Daily overtime counts hours above a limit on a single day; weekly overtime counts hours above a limit across the week. When both are set, this calculator takes daily overtime first and applies the weekly limit to the remaining hours, so no hour is counted twice. Your rules may combine them differently.
- Does Regsta calculate overtime pay?
- No. Regsta records start, end and break for each shift and shows hours worked. It adds no overtime, premiums or supplements to the pay file. Your payroll system applies your pay rules to the approved hours, so use your payroll system or this calculator for the pay figure.
- Are the examples legal advice?
- No. They are short summaries of common baselines as of 28 October 2026 and they leave out many exceptions: exempt roles, sector rules, collective agreements and local law. Check the rules that apply to your employees with the authority that sets them, or a qualified adviser, before you rely on a result.
Calculator, spreadsheet or software
A calculator answers one question for one week. When the same question comes up every pay period, the answer belongs in a record.
- This calculator: one person and one week, entered by hand. Nothing is kept once you close the page.
- A spreadsheet: keeps a history and can be shared, but each person's file, the formulas and the approval are yours to maintain.
- Regsta: employees clock in and out on their own phone, each finished shift goes to a manager as awaiting approval, corrections keep the original entry, and approved hours export as a pay summary file, CSV or Excel.
Record the hours instead of adding them up
Create your company, invite your team and approve the first week of hours.